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10 best books like The Bedside Companion to Sherlock Holmes (Dick Riley): The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space, Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes for Dummies, Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind, The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Crimes of Dr. Watson

The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases
AuthorE.J. Wagner
ISBN0471648795
From autopsies to zoology, how Holmes eliminated the impossible
This unique book uses the legendary adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a jumping-off point to discuss the growth of forensic science during the Victorian era. The book explores the emergence of science from superstition, how forensic...
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorVincent Starrett
One of the cornerstone books in any serious Sherlockian bookshelf, and my copy is personally inscribed by Otto Penzler. It doesn’t get much better than that! This is one of the books in Otto Penzler’s Sherlock Holmes Library, a reissue of eight previously hard to find classics from the earlier age...
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0312944012
In this outstanding collection of Sherlockian tales, the master of detection solves the most fantastic cases of his career. Herein are answered questions which have plagued loyal readers for decades, including: What is the truth about the mysterious menace of Sumatra? What occurs when Holmes must...
Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorJ.R. Campbell
ISBN1894063600
Introduction: I hear of Sherlock everywhere / Charles Prepolec --
The comfort of the Seine / Stephen Volk --
The adventure of Lucifer's footprints / Christopher Fowler --
The deadly sin of Sherlock Holmes / Tom English --
The color that came to Chiswick / William Meikle --
From...
The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorKen Greenwald
ISBN1566195403
When radio broadcasts of the Sherlock Holmes stories were first aired in the 1940s, the avid - and the occasional - Holmes readers were all thrilled. Although the early radio scripts were based on the Conan Doyle stories, they often dealt with questions unanswered by the original stories.

Recently...
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies
AuthorSteven Doyle
ISBN0470484446
Get a comprehensive guide to this important literary figure and his author.

A classic literary character, Sherlock Holmes has fascinated readers for decades -- from his repartee with Dr. Watson and his unparalleled powers of deduction to the settings, themes, and villains of the stories....
Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind
AuthorJosef Steiff
ISBN0812697316
This entertaining collection of essays deserves to exist because Sherlock Holmes sees things others don’t. He sees the world in a different way, and by so doing, allows us to see that same world – and human behavior – in different ways as well. Oh, sure, there have been countless detectives who...
The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
: A collection of stories, plays and essays about Holmes that are not part of the Canon but certainly make nice supplementary reading. An excellent addition to any Holmes library... This book is similar to the out of print and often difficult to find Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha by Jack Tracy....
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles
AuthorPierre Bayard
ISBN1596916052
A playfully brilliant re-creation of one of the most-loved detective stories of all time; the companion book no Holmes fan should be without.

Eliminate the impossible, Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution. But as Pierre Bayard finds in this dazzling reinvestigation of The...
The Crimes of Dr. Watson
AuthorDuane Swierczynski
ISBN1594741999
After the rooms at 221B Baker Street are set ablaze—and a mutilated corpse is discovered in the wreckage—Dr. John H. Watson is arrested and imprisoned at Coldbath Fields penitentiary. Writing from a cramped and dimly lit cell, Watson describes the mysterious events leading up to his arrest. Someone...
The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorLarry Millett
ISBN0142003409
An evil adversary has risen from the dead. A letter, written in a secret cipher, tells famed sleuth Sherlock Holmes that Abe Slaney, the vicious murderer he once captured after a duel of wits, has performed another dastardly deed-kidnapping the beautiful widow of a man he killed years earlier. Soon...
The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorTed Riccardi
ISBN1400060656
Sherlock Holmes is dead—or so most of the world thinks. His fatal plunge over the Reichenbach Falls as he struggled with his archenemy, Moriarty, has been widely reported.

But Holmes has escaped and is alive.

In his immediate circle, only Holmes’s brother, the lethargic genius...
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Collection)
AuthorDavid Stuart Davies
ISBN1853267449
Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.

The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street...
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Star of India
AuthorC.E. Lawrence
ISBN0857681214
Holmes and Watson find themselves caught up in a complex chess board of a problem, involving a clandestine love affair and the disappearance of a priceless sapphire.

Professor James Moriarty is back to tease and torment, leading the duo on a chase through the dark and dangerous back streets...
Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection
AuthorRaymond M. Smullyan
ISBN0812923898
Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen captured? or, Is the White queen promoted...
My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective
AuthorMichael Kurland
ISBN0312325959
For over a century, readers have thrilled to the exploits of Sherlock Holmes as told from the point of view of Dr. Watson. But do Watson's tales really tell the true story of the Great Detective? In this collection of thirteen original tales, each narrated by a side character from the original canon, another...
Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
AuthorPhil G. Goulding
ISBN0449910423
MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from a sonata?
Maybe...
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
AuthorDaniel Stashower
ISBN0805066845
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review)

This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...
The Art of Shen Ku
AuthorZeek
ISBN0399527257
What is Shen Ku? Roughly translated: "Pure Traveler" or "Phantom Passenger." What exactly is the "art of...?" Mastering the skill and knowledge of practically everything anyone comes across while on Earth, including:

* Tying knots and enhancing sex
* Numerology and self hypnosis
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